Indigenous Canadian from northern Ontario. Believe in equality, Indigenous rights, minority rights, LGBTQ+, women’s rights and do not support war of any kind.

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Cake day: June 13th, 2023
  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What was the conversation surrounding drugs and sex like in your home growing up?English
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    2 days ago

    Don’t do drugs

    Don’t do sex

    I’m indigenous Canadian and both my parents survived residential school in the 50s. Residential school for indigenous people back then was forced on us, especially for children where they were systematically abused by Christian missionaries. Mom was not so abused but dad was terribly traumatized to the point where sex and anything sexual or remotely sexual was forbidden. Just about everything in life to him meant burning in everlasting hell. Drugs were no different but less so.

    So our indigenous Christian home just dealt with it all by forbidding everything.

    How did it turn out?

    I have seven siblings and we all ended up with alcohol and drug addiction by the time we were teenagers. I cleaned up early and I’ve been sober for 29 years, all my other siblings never fell off the deep end (thank God) but I’m the only one who got officially ‘sober’.

    I didn’t have kids but everyone else in my family did before anyone was married. One of my younger brothers picked up the slack for me by having children with four women. I have over 40 nieces and nephews, some by the family, some brought in, some married in and others illegitimate.

    We’re all one big happy family … but we’re all gonna burn in hell. Lol

  • IninewCrow@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?English
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    6 days ago

    Mine is wear a medical grade mask in public spaces.

    It does multiple things.

    First it protects you from air borne pathogens like viruses and especially COVID.

    Second, if you are confronted or people get mad at you for wearing one, it immediately let’s you know what kind of people are around. If they’re the type that will get mad at you for wearing a mask, it’s definitely a place to leave and avoid in the future. A mask is a great way to weed people out in public.

    My wife has lifelong lung problems now and we can’t risk any infections. So wearing a mask is necessary for me … and at this point in my life, it’s normal now and I find that it’s normal for most people. 90% of the people that see me in a mask notice but immediately understand and don’t make an issue of it. It’s 10% of the loudest idiots that make it a problem and a mask is a great way to unmask them (pun intended)